This is my first story and I hope you all enjoy it. I'll be adding more chapters so follow this story so you know when the new chapters get added. I made up the main character and her nation so there's a reason you've never heard of her or the Elvish kingdom she comes from. This story takes place after Erebor was taken over by Smaug and all the citizens are traveling together lost and trying to find a new home. All the thirteen dwarves are together and they are passing by this expanse of wilderness far off but not too far from the Elvish nation Nauru ….

"You look lovely Annie!" The Elvish Queen of Nauru exclaimed to her daughter a young elfling named Annaliece. "That dress is perfect I knew it would look splendid on you!"

"You say she looks good in everything mother." Annaliece's older sister Tauriel commented. Even though she was an elfling and only 6 years older than her sister she still felt like she was superior and very jealous of all the attention her mother had been giving to her younger sister who had only been alive for 5 year and her sister 11. "Just because you say it looks good on her doesn't mean it actually does."

"It doesn't." Annaliece replied in her small nervous voice. She often felt very intimidated by her sister.

"Nonsense. Don't listen to your sister Annie she doesn't know what she's talking about. You look beautiful and that's no lie. Your sister is just jealous of how lovely you look in your new dress." The Queen told Annaliece while giving a stern stare to Tauriel "Right Tauriel?"

"What? Are you kidding? Why on Middle Earth would I want to look like that?" she said gesturing to Annaliece who was starting to tear up as she let out a small sniffle.

"Tauriel! Go to your room and stay there until I come and tell you it's alright to leave!" The Queen fiercely scolded. "And we will be having a little talk on how to treat your sister." She added as Tauriel left the room.

"Do I really look that ugly?" Annaliece asked her mother as she started to cry.

" Annaliece, oh darling no, of course not. You're beautiful. If you won't believe me then go to the mirror over there and see for yourself." The Queen said as she led Annaliece over to the mirror on the wall. "Now look and let me tell you what I see." Annaliece looked in the mirror.

"What do you see?" she asked still choking on tears.

"I see a beautiful girl in a lovely dress. With long gourgeous blonde hair, that drapes over her light fair skin. And where her eyes should be, are two beautiful emeralds as green as a new grown leaf on a tree."

Annaliece giggled "Mother I have eyes. I couldn't see if I had emeralds instead."

The Queen smiled and kissed her daughter on the head. "Don't listen to your sister when she tells you you're not beautiful. You are now and you will only get lovlier as you get older. I can't wait to see how fair you will be when you're all grown up. The prince or noble elf that your father picks for you to marry will be very lucky to have such a lovely wife."

"Do I have to marry someone just because my father picks them? Can I marry an elf because I love him?" Annaliece asked

"Of course you can marry someone you love. As long as your father agrees then it's alright." The Queen replied.

"But what if he doesn't?" Annaliece asked.

"Well then…." Her voice trailed off as the two heard a loud explosion near the border.

"What was that?" Annaliece asked alarmed.

"It sounded like… no… it couldn't be." The Queen ran over to the window and looked out. "Oh my! It is…" her voice got cut off again by a guard who ran into the room.

"Dragon!" he shouted.

The Queen grabbed Annaliece's arm and ran to Tauriel's room and threw open the door immeadiately.

"Well I see it's time for my lesson on how to behave towards my sister. I'm so excited, please tell me all your wisdom on this matter?" Tauriel said sarcastically.

"That is going to have to wait." The Queen said sternly. "There is a dragon terrorizing the city and I need you to leave with your sister and protect her."

"Ugh" Tauriel groaned. "Why do I always have to protect her? Why can't we just teach her to defend herself already?"

"She's 5 years old. You know she could never defend herself right now." The Queen retorted sharply. "And for that matter even you can't defend yourself that well either. You are eleven you can't defend yourself against a dragon." They heard the dragon spew fire at another section of the kingdom. "Quickly now! To the escape exit both of you!" The Queen led them to the escape exit in a hallway of the castle "Just follow the tunnel and you two should be out of harm's way in no time." She said opening up the door for them to go in.

"What about you mother?" Annaliece asked. "Aren't you coming with us?"

The Queen gave Annaliece a sad look and said "No darling I cannot."

"What? Why?" Annaliece asked as the dragon demolished a library by the castle.

"The tunnel is magic it only allows two. Now both of you, go now!" The Queen said pushing them both in the tunnel.

"When will I see you again mother?" Annaliece asked crying.

Tauriel and The Queen exchanged glances. They both knew the outcome. "Soon." The Queen replied. "Tauriel will show you how to get back. She knows how. Right Tauriel?" She said giving her a look that meant say yes.

"Yes mother. I will gladly show Annie the way back after this is all over." Tauriel replied as they felt the castle shake and a huge chunk of the ceiling came crashing down next to The Queen.

"Promise me you two will stick together no matter what! Now go before the tunnel collapses!" The Queen shut the door leaving them both alone inside the tunnel.

Tauriel felt the floor shaking "Let's get out of here now!" she grabbed Annaliece's arm and the two of them ran through the tunnel until they finally reached the exit and opened it. They came out from a tree a long distance away from the city but still in view of it. That's when they saw what had happened to their home.

"The palace!" Annaliece exclaimed! "It's destroyed! What about mother! Do you think she's ok?"

Tauriel just stood there staring at the smoking kingdom. With a shocked and sad expression on her face and tears rolling down her cheeks. Then she finally turned to Annaliece and said "Annie. Our mother is dead."

"She can't be! She promised we'd see her again after this is over!" Annaliece yelled as she burst into tears.

"Annie she lied." Tauriel said choking back her tears

"Why would she do that! She always tells us lying is wrong and then she goes and lies to us! Why I don't understand?" Annaliece cried.

"To protect us." Tauriel said "She knew that you would never go without her."

"I miss mother already." Annaliece said sobbing.

"I made her a promise that I would protect you and take care of you Annie. I'm keeping that promise. Come on. There's nothing left for us here." Tauriel said turning away from the burning city and walking away. Annaliece stayed a moment longer. Tears streaming down her face as she looked at her home in flames, her mother burning alive in the inferno. "Come on. Let's go." Annaliece turned and followed Tauriel towards the wilderness. Tauriel took one look back then kept on walking. Annaliece looked back and saw a huge dragon with yellow blazing eyes staring right through her and she ran and caught up to her. Tauriel made a camp that night in the woods. Annaliece sat on a tree root crying for her mother. "Will you stop crying and help me!" Tauriel shouted angrily at her sister.

"I can't help it." Annaliece said still sobbing "I miss mother."

"Look Annie, she gave her life for us, let's not have it be worth nothing by having us both die because you're too spoiled to start a fire or set up camp even though your life depends on it!" Tauriel pushed Annie to the ground.

"I would but I don't know how! I'm five Tauriel! I don't know how to take care of myself mother always took care of me." Annaliece shouted at her in tears sitting on the ground.

"Well it's time to learn then." Tauriel said handing Annaliece a knife. "Welcome to the real world, now go kill some squirrels or something with that knife."

"I'll try." Annaliece said and climbed a tree nearby to find a squirrel to stab. She looked on a branch and thought she saw something like a salamander moving on the branch. She looked closer and realized it was too big to be a salamder and it was the same color as the branch. She held out her hand to it and it crawled on. It started to change to match the color of her pale fair skin. She giggled as it sat there on her. Then she remembered her job. To find some squirrels to eat. She felt the reptile crawl up on her shoulder and fasten itself there. She saw a squirrel eating on the branch. She took her aim, ready to throw the knife. I'm so sorry she said in her mind to the squirrel. She was about to throw it but then stopped. No. I can't do it. I'm not a killer. Hopefully Tauriel will understand. She climbed back down and went to Tauriel.

"So did you kill anything?" she asked.

"No. There was nothing up there to kill." Annaliece replied.

"You're lying." Tauriel replied "I saw a squirrel up there you were just too squeamish to kill it. I expected that from a weakling like you." Then Tauriel saw the chameleon on Annialieces' shoulder. "What's that?" She asked.

"Nothing." Annaliece said taking a step back nervously.

"Show me now!" Tauriel demanded. Annaliece cautiously walked over and picked the chameleon off her shoulder and handed it to Tauriel.

"Well I guess we could eat this." Tauriel said pondering in thought of how to cook a chameleon.

"What? No!" Annaliece exclaimed grabbing the chameleon from Tauriel and holding him close to her. "I like how he changes colors. I want to keep him as a pet."

"We have to eat something if we're going to survive out here and we can't afford to keep anything that we can eat as a pet right now." Tauriel said. She tried to grab the chameleon but Annaliece kept him away.

"I won't let you kill an innocent creature. He didn't do anything to anyone he doesn't deserve to die." Annaliece pleaded.

"You have to stop thinking these innocent thoughts Annie. You can't be squeamish and weak anymore. Wake up and join the real world because you can't go back home again." Tauriel said. Annaliece started to cry. "Why do I even need to worry about you. You're probably going to cry yourself to death or starve because you refuse to eat animals. You wouldn't last one day out here on your own."

Oh yeah. She thinks she knows everything about survival in the woods and she's only eleven. I'll show her. I'll travel on my own and live by my own rules and I'll be so well off she'll be sorry she was never nice to me. Maybe someone will adopt me into their family. Wouldn't she be jealous if that happened. Annaliece thought of her life without Tauriel. That night as Tauriel lay in a leaf pile asleep Annaliece slipped away to start her new life, free from Tauriel. As she was walking she heard something behind her. The chameleon was following her. "Hey there little guy. I wasn't expecting to see you again." She let the chameleon climb on her shoulder and sit there as she walked on in the forest. She was feeling happy and free. She even ran around and danced in the leaves. Then she heard a wolf howl. She stopped instantly, suddenly afraid. The darkness felt like it was closing in and she thought she could see a pair of pale eyes staring at her through the bushes. She bolted through the forest screaming, terrified until she ran straight into a dwarf.

"Well hello there little one." The dwarf said "Where did you come from?" Annie looked around the dwarf and saw a sea of people. All upset and dreary.

"I'm Annaliece. Princess of the Elvish kingdom Nauru. And who might you be?" Annaliece asked.

"I'm Balin." The dwarf said handing out his hand to Annaliece. "Why are you out here all on your own? Are your parents nearby?" As soon as Balin said the word 'parent' Annaliece started to cry. "What's wrong child?" Balin asked leaning towards Annaliece.

"My parents are dead." Annalice sobbed.

"What happened?" Balin asked.

"A dragon attacked our kingdom." Annaliece said sobbing even louder. As soon as Balin heard this he picked up Annaliece and took her straight over to a group of dwarves sitting by a fire. He took her up to a very important looking one and said "Thorin, this young elfling princess' kingdom was attacked by a dragon." When Thorin heard this he stood staright up and stared anxiously at the tear stained elf.

"Tell me, what did this dragon look like?" Thorin asked.

"It was big and black, It had these yellow glowing eyes…" Annaliece started to cry again.

"Thorin." A dwarf stood up and went over to Thorin "Don't press these questions on her. She is young and has obviously been through a huge loss like us. Give her some time to recover and then maybe we can learn more."

"You're right Gloin." Thorin answered. "Besides , from what she's said so far, the dragon that destroyed her home isn't the one that took over ours. Smaug is still in Erebor." Thorin sat down with a sigh. When he heard there was a dragon that had attacked another kingdom he was hoping that it was Smaug who had left Erebor and destroyed this young girl's land, and that his grandfather's people could return home Balin had thought this too and that's why he brought Annaliece over. "Our return to Erebor is still very far off."

"What about the girl?" Balin asked "We can't just leave her in the wilderness alone. She's only five as far as I can tell."

"Then she may wander the wilderness. Her kind refused to give us aid when we were in need of it. That's why we're here right now. Now we will do the same to them." Thorin sat down. All the dwarves looked at Annaliece with pity and empathy in their eyes. Their hearts broke at the sight of

"Thorin. Are you really going to abandon this poor defenseless little girl in the wilderness to die?" Balin asked.

"That poor little girl!" Ori shouted and all the dwarves began to tear up and some began to sob for the young elfling.

"Why should we take her in when her kind didn't take us in." Thorin said.

"She's young. She isn't Thrandruil Thorin. She wasn't the one who abandoned us and her parents as far as we know haven't done any harm to our kind. She has just gone through what we've gone through. You understand how she feels don't you?" Balin asked Thorin. Thorin turned to face Annaliece. He looked into her eyes and saw innocence and hurt, and fear. After a long while he sighed.

"Alright, she may stay with us." Thorin said.

"Yay!" Annalieces' face lit up and she smiled as Balin put her down and she went over to Thorin and hugged him. "Thank you." She said. Thorin slowly hugged her back and all the other dwarves smiled and went "awwww" Her smile seemed to warm their hearts and they seemed to forget all they had been through, and the fire seemed to glow a little brighter. She sat down with Thorin and the other dwarves. Her new family.

All of a sudden Tauriel woke up. She thought she heard something close by in the camp she made for her and her sister but she guessed she was mistaken. She looked over at where her sister was sleeping and was about to go to sleep when she realized that she wasn't there. She immeadiatly got up and started looking around camp for her, assuming she was just hiding somewhere. "Annie." She called out, but no reply came. "Annie where are you? This isn't funny come out from wherever you're hiding right now!" she heard the wolves howl and a dark expression crossed her face "No! oh no! She's been eaten by wolves! I promised mother I would look after her and now she's dead! I shouldn't have been so hard on her and now she's died so young! What have I done!" Tauriel shouted as she wept for her sister. Not knowing that she was still alive and with Thorin and the other dwarves.